Catholic IQ test?

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I thought they were unnecessary propaganda that took away from an otherwise enlightening learning exercise. I sent a feedback and said so.

I also thought it was the same old boring stuff I’ve already read 50 articles and threads about on CAF. I didn’t say that in the feedback, but I’m getting very tired of people who are angry at the clergy or “the Church” (which they seem to regard as meaning “the clergy”), to the point where I mentioned my lack of patience already once in confession.
 
Many of the questions were needlessly propagandistic as well, IMHO, but I was surprised enough by the closing remarks to ask for comment. Still, for this non-Catholic anyway, I enjoyed looking up answers to the (short) quiz. I’m familiar enough with the Bible (and the differences between protestant and Catholic canons) and Catholic leadership titles, but nothing short of google was going to make me familiar with 13th century saints. (Married at 14? Yikes!)
 
It was normal for girls to be married at 14 for most of history right up to about the 1800s, as girls married when they reached child-bearing age and the average life expectancy was much lower so you did not have the luxury of waiting around until you were 25, you might be dead by then.
 
Just so happens that Catherine, the saint in question, died at 24.

Betrothed at 4, married at 14, widowed at 20, with three kids. Apparently a big enough name to make me wonder if you were already familiar with her. Meaning no disrespect, but I couldn’t see anything especially remarkable about her in the brief bios I checked. (Other than the many parallels in her life’s outline to that of Aisha, the most famous female muslim.)

Human mores remain more changeable than their biology. With rare exception, based purely on brain development, a 14 year-old girl lacks the necessary agency to consent to marriage. For much of human history, this was not a concern. Women were property.
 
Well, I"ll leave you to your opinions about social customs, teenage girls, etc as we’re getting a bit off-topic here. Online saint bios often do not fully explain very well why the person was renowned for being holy in their time.

I personally find the saints, all eras, very interesting to know about, so I read about many very obscure saints. Naturally I don’t expect all Catholics to share my interest in them.
 
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I got 170 - quite pleased actually. Plus I don’t think the world’s going to end because I picked the wrong Papal Flag - it seemed reasonable to assume a cross might be involved somewhere - my bad! I’d best go swot up on the Apostles though…if they’d put Thaddeus rather than Judas I’d have been less confused!
 
I got maximum scores on Dogma,.Anti-catholic, Nobles and Special Days. Kind of freaky. But okay I alreqdy confessed here on CAF that I have a soft spot for the Inquisition lol.
 
I took both the short and long version and did not get that question. Maybe the test is location-sensitive?
 
If it is the same Catholic IQ test that was promoted a few years ago then I took it and saved the results. I got a score of 190. The topic I had the most trouble with was religious nobles.

Perhaps I will take it again. I took it 7 years ago so I would hope I can get a better score the next time. However, I have not studied the history of any religious nobles that I can think of so perhaps my score would be similar.
 
I did well except for some of the questions on the Old Testament. I found some of the questions for too easy and do not know why they were included. I had expected there to be more in the test about knowledge of Catholic doctrine than there was, it seemed to me, more like a general knowledge quiz.
 
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